Archive for November, 2015

Nov 06 2015

Houston Defeats Pro-Transgender Equal Rights Ordinance After Fear-Mongering Opposition Campaign

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GUEST: Russell Berman, Senior Associate Editor at The Atlantic. His article about this issue is entitled, How Bathroom Fears Conquered Transgender Rights in Houston.

Voters in Texas on Tuesday failed to pass the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), called Proposition 1. The measure would have affirmed a Houston city council resolution passed earlier but which was rejected by the Texas State Supreme Court. The …

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Nov 06 2015

Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women, and Queer Christians Are Reclaiming Evangelicalism

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GUEST: Deborah Jian Lee, award winning journalist and radio producer, former staff reporter for the Associated Press. She has taught journalism at Columbia University and written for Foreign Policy, Forbes, Slate, and more.

It used to be that the Republican Party could rely pretty heavily on evangelical Christians to vote for them, drawn to the party’s adherence to socially conservative positions. The issues …

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Nov 05 2015

Saving Humanity From Climate Chaos Means Saying No to Business as Usual

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Part of an industrial oven creating coal coke in Turkey in 2013. (Kefca / Shutterstock)

For more than 20 years, delegates from all over the world have met annually to discuss ways to mitigate the devastating impacts of a changing climate. This December, the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate …

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Nov 05 2015

Why the AirBnB Ballot Measure Lost in San Francisco

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GUEST: Steven Hill, a Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation and a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He is a political writer and author of five books, including the just published Raw Deal: How the “Uber Economy” and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers.

San Francisco voters on Tuesday rejected a ballot measure that would have placed some restrictions …

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Nov 05 2015

Republicans Win in Kentucky, Mississippi, Seattle Passes Model Campaign Finance, and Pot Loses in Ohio

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GUEST: David Dayen, contributing writer to Salon, weekly columnist at The Fiscal Times, contributor to The Intercept.

Republican Matt Bevin beat Democrat Jack Conway on Tuesday to win the governorship of Kentucky. Bevin has vowed to end the state’s Obamacare programs. A Republican also won in Mississippi – incumbent Gov. Phil Bryant defeated Democrat Robert Gray. In that same state, a constitutional amendment designed …

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Nov 05 2015

Why Immigrant Women At a Texas Detention Center Are On Hunger Strike Again

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GUEST: Andrea Cristina Mercado, campaign director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and co-chair of We Belong Together.

Undocumented women at Hutto Detention Center in Texas are on an indefinite hunger strike, demanding that they be immediately released. A significant portion of the approximately 500 women being held at Hutto, are refusing food. Most of the detainees fled violence from their home countries of …

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Nov 04 2015

Everything You Know About the Hawaii Sovereignty Vote is Wrong

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GUEST: Anne Keala Kelly, is an award winning, Native Hawaiian filmmaker and journalist whose work has appeared in The Nation and Indian Country Today, and her broadcast journalism has aired on the Pacifica Network, Al Jazeera, The News Hour With Jim Lehrer. She is currently working on a film about the struggle to protect Mauna Kea called Why The Mountain.

Voting has begun in …

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Nov 04 2015

Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate

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GUEST: Abdel Bari Atwan is a Palestinian journalist and writer and the long-time editor-in chief of the London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi. He now edits the Rai Al-Youm news website, the Arab world’s first Huffington Post-style outlet. He is a contributor to the Guardian newspaper and Scottish Herald. He interviewed Osama Bin Laden twice in the 1990s. His books include The Secret History …

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Nov 03 2015

The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

GUEST: Dan Barber is the executive chef at a restaurant in Manhattan West Village called Blue Hill, and works with a non-profit called Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. He writes about food and agricultural policy for the New York Times and has won a number of awards including the James Beard award.

California has hundreds of farmers markets all over the state. Whether you live in a big or …

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Nov 02 2015

Haiti Elections Are So Problematic, They May Be a Prelude to a Coup

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GUEST: Brian Concannon Jr., Executive director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti.

Haitians went to the polls on October 25th for the first round of voting in Presidential elections. The elections were to be held in August but were postponed due to violence. Current President Michel Martelly who has long enjoyed US government support, has campaigned heavily for his favored candidate, Jovenel Moise, an …

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